1865 



THE progress of the American civil war suggested to 

 Huxley in 1865 the text for an article " Emancipation, 

 Black and White," the emancipation of the negro in 

 America and the emancipation of women in England, 

 which appeared in the Reader of May 20 (Coll. Ess. 

 iii. 66). His main argument for the emancipation 

 of the negro was that already given in his letter to 

 his sister (p. 362) ; namely, that in accordance with 

 the moral law that no human being can arbitrarily 

 dominate over another without grievous damage to 

 his own nature, the master will benefit by freedom 

 more than the freed-man. And just as the negro 

 will never take the highest places in civilisation yet 

 need not to be confined to the lowest, so, he argues, it 

 will be with women. " Nature's old salique law will 

 never be repealed, and no change of dynasty will be 

 effected," although "whatever argument justifies a 

 given education for all boys justifies its application 

 to girls as well." 



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